The sudden disappearance of a 25-year-old creative head of Synergy Adlabs, has been solved with the arrest of an aspiring female actor.
Lieutenant murders creative head who also had affair with the Kannada starlet
The sudden disappearance of a 25-year-old creative head of Synergy Adlabs, has been solved with the arrest of an aspiring female actor. He was a victim of a love triangle, the police said.
Neeraj Grover was reported missing from Malad since May 7. Investigations revealed that he was murdered.
A Navy lieutenant has been accused of the murder. ML Jerome Matthew, 25, works with the Navy in Kochi, Kerala, where he has been doing a course in aeronautical engineering, allegedly committed the murder after he found Grover with the actor, Maria Monica Susayraj, 27, in her apartment in Malad (W), the police said.
Susayraj had come to Mumbai in March to try her luck in tele-serials, joint commissioner of police (crime) Rakesh Maria said. “She met Grover during a visit to one of the television houses. Later, they were in touch through SMSes and got close to each other,” Maria said.
Grover worked for Balaji Telefilms as its creative head. But, recently, he joined Synergy Adlabs. The change in job, however, did not put an end to his affair with Susayraj, Maria said. A few months back, she had been going around with Matthew; the two had studied together in Mysore, the police officer said.
Susayraj had come to Mumbai once before three years ago to do a course in acting. She had returned to Karnataka and acted in a few Kannada movies.
On May 6, Grover visited Susayraj’s residence, but never returned home, his father Amarnath said in a complaint to the Malad police. The crime branch in Bandra started investigating the case.
“Susayraj was shifting her house. She was surprised to see Grover at her place around 10pm. He told her that he had come to help her shift,” Maria said. “A little later Matthew called Susayraj. He heard a male voice and asked Susayraj who the person was,” Maria said. Susayraj told Matthew it was Grover.
“Around 7.30am the next day, Susayraj was surprised to see Matthew at the door. Grover stepped out from a room when Matthew was enquiring about him. This resulted in a heated argument between the two. Matthew then took a kitchen knife and fatally stabbed Grover,” said Maria.
Matthew then chopped the body into pieces with the knife, put them in a bag along with the blood-stained bed-sheet and window drapes, and his and Susayraj’s clothes. He and Susayraj then took the bag in a car to Manor in Thane and burnt the bag in an isolated place by dousing it with petrol.
“During interrogation, Susayraj broke down and confessed to the crime. On Wednesday morning, a police team went to Manor but found only bones at the spot. We have sent samples of the bones for DNA tests,” Maria said. The police then alerted the Navy in Kochi, which took Matthew into custody.
A Mumbai police team that left for Kochi had taken Matthew’s custody, sources said.
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